Juliana Morgan Alvarez (b. Miami, FL) artist, performer, and writer

Press & Publications:

Art Wire, The Porch & OZ Arts Nashville, "Belly of a Crocodile" in response to Gregory Maqoma's "Cion: Requiem of Ravel's Bolero," June 2023

Art Wire, The Porch & OZ Arts Nashville, "ecosystem in tenuous equilibrium," in response to New Dialect & American Modern Opera Company's "Broken Theater," April 2023

WGCU: NPR and PBS Podcast, “Three Song Stories Episode 244: Juliana Morgan Alvarez,” June 2022

NPR interview for One Island premiere, June 2022

Film Doo interview and review for BobbyAnna, 2017

Education:

2020 Master of Fine Arts, Performance & Acting, Theatre, California Institute of the Arts

2011 Bachelor of Arts, Media Studies, English, & minor in Film, Florida State University

Fellowships, Residencies & Workshops:

2024 - 2025 STATE Gallery + Residency at The Forge, Nashville, TN

2023 - 2024 Buchanan Arts Artist Fellow, Nashville, TN

2022 - 2023 Art Wire Creative Writing Fellowship, Nashville, TN

2022 What the Folk with Tom Zhang, Artist Affiliate at Theatre Emory, Atlanta, Georgia

2021 Long Stretches of Short Time, Center for New Performance, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Labyrinth, Speakeasy Society, Los Angeles, CA

Commercial Commissions:

2024 Drift Hotel, Vertebrae; 43 hanging sculptures, Nashville, TN

Selected Theatre & Live Performance:

2022 One Island, Ghostbird Theatre Company, Wassmer Gallery, Fort Myers, FL

2019 Machinal, dir. Genevieve Fowler, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2019 Casualties of War by Sarahjeen François, dir. Ryan Perez-Adame, The Actor’s Company, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Antígona, dir. Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Walt Disney Modular Theatre, Valencia, CA

2018 Through the Leaves, dir. Brittney Brady, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2018 When the Peaks of Our Washing Sounds Come Together, My Treehouse Will Have a Roof by Schiong Xie, Garden at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Mehahn by Christopher Williams, dir. Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Black and White Gallery, Valencia, CA

Selected Film:

2022 The Veteran, dir. Jeremy Waltman, Kings World Production (still in production)

2021 Long Stretches of Short Time, dir. Genevieve Fowler, Center for New Performance

2020 Pig Tails, dir. Genevieve Fowler

2017 BobbyAnna, dir. Jackson Kroopf, PBS KQED Film School Stories Award, Vimeo Staff Pick

Voice Over:

2021 Meeting the Moment: California ACEP 50th Anniversary, dir. Ryan Perez-Adame

Selected Improv & Sketch Comedy:

2018 Knife Kids, Del Close Marathon, Chelsea, NYC

2018 Knife Kids, LA Indie Improv Festival, Los Angeles, CA

2018 My Girlfriend the Succubus, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Los Angeles, CA